The hidden theology of Adam Smith
The hidden theology of Adam Smith
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亚当·斯密的隐秘神学
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2001
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Lisa Hill
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Lisa Hill
这篇文章对亚当·斯密的《看不见的手》的后期解读提出了异议，认为它本质上是一种世俗手段。有人认为，斯密的社会和经济哲学本质上是神学的，他的整个社会秩序模式在逻辑上依赖于上帝在本质上行动的概念。这将表明，史密斯远不是一种纯粹的世俗的、唯物主义的或进化论的方法，而是从设计的论证出发，构建了一个目的论的、安全地位于传统链中的模型。他将幸福作为自然的最终原因的关注，使得他的作品中不太可能有任何关于原始进化论的主张，而他关于故意赋予人类框架中的缺陷的论点，如果没有自然中的设计和目的的假设，就没有意义。
This paper contests late readings of Adam Smith's ‘invisible hand’ as an essentially secular device. It is argued that Smith's social and economic philosophy is inherently theological and that his entire model of social order is logically dependent on the notion of God's action in nature. It will be shown that far from being a purely secular, materialist or evolutionist approach Smith works from the argument from design to construct a model that is teleological and securely located in the chain of being tradition. His focus upon happiness as the Final Cause of nature renders improbable any claims for proto-evolutionism in his work while his arguments about the deliberate endowment of defects in the human frame make no sense without the supposition of design and purpose in nature.